The mind-body connection isn't metaphor—it's physiology. Your left ear (non-dominant) is the emotional ear; your right ear (dominant) is the logic ear. Focus on the inner energy field of your body to achieve present-moment clarity. Fear neutralizes love and can turn off other feelings like a switch through physiological mechanisms, not just psychological ones.

Change conditions that cause issues rather than treating symptoms. By time cancer sets in, it's five years too late—focus on initial conditions not point-in-time problems. Plan today for tomorrow's problems rather than firefighting. Anticipate the unexpected, then make order from disorder through proactive systems thinking about health.

Our physiology restricts our mental state—stress cuts off blood flow to the brain, and sympathetic nervous system activation makes us myopic and survival-focused. Emotions emerge from the limbic system with a 74-millisecond response time that affects decision-making before conscious awareness kicks in. Physical and physiological conditions shape the quality of thinking and choosing far more than most people realize.